Hi Dexen, I agree with all you wrote, except when you write about association lists:
> Nb., this mechanism is used internally in picoLisp for symbol properties=20 > (aside of the general value of the symbol, each symbol can have any number = > of=20 > (KEY . VALUE) properties associated with it). Access with (get) and (set). There is a slight difference: The cells in a symbol's property list are not of the form (KEY . VALUE), but of (VALUE . KEY), so they are not really an association list. 'get' searches for KEY in a similar way, but the convenient feature is that 'prop' and '::' return a cell with VALUE in the CAR, so it can be used directly with functions that expect a 'var' argument (e.g. 'inc', 'dec', 'push', 'pop', 'queue' and so on). The statement Access with (get) and (set) is correct for 'get', but I assume you mean 'put' for the equivalet setter function. About the problem of your "meta!" mail: > =2D--- > ... > =2D-=20 > dexen deVries > > [[[=E2=86=93][=E2=86=92]]] You are right that the mail is indeed clobbered with escaped characters. Can it be that this is a problem of mail client(s)? Because mails from other members of this group don't have them. Cheers, - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe
